Title

Isotropization in Brane Gas Cosmology

Author(s)/Creator(s)

Scott Watson, Department of Physics, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Robert H. Brandenberger, Department of Physics, Brown University, Providence, RIFollow

Document Type

Article

Date

12-9-2002

Language

English

Disciplines

Physics

Description/Abstract

Brane Gas Cosmology (BGC) is an approach to unifying string theory and cosmology in which matter is described by a gas of strings and branes in a dilaton gravity background. The Universe is assumed to start out with all spatial dimensions compact and small. It has previously been shown that in this context, in the approximation of neglecting inhomogeneities and anisotropies, there is a dynamical mechanism which allows only three spatial dimensions to become large. However, previous studies do not lead to any conclusions concerning the isotropy or anisotropy of these three large spatial dimensions. Here, we generalize the equations of BGC to the anisotropic case, and find that isotropization is a natural consequence of the dynamics.

Additional Information

11 pages, 4 eps figures, references added More informaton at http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0207168

Recommended Citation

Watson, Scott and Brandenberger, Robert H., "Isotropization in Brane Gas Cosmology" (2002). Physics - All Scholarship. 422.
https://surface.syr.edu/phy/422

Source

Harvested from Arxiv.org

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